The Tribeca Film festival presented five innovative ‘transmedia’ projects that use technology to give a fresh approach to interactive storytelling.

Contributions included a film crowd-sourced from Star Wars fans, an interactive documentary about Superstorm Sandy and a roving robot that records people’s responses to questions that will later be edited together into a film.

Tom Brook reports.

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